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The Unsent Letters Of Erik Satie
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becky sharp
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After his death in 1925 some of Erik Satie's friends went to the flat that he had lived in for 27 years....no one else had ever been allowed in it during his life. Inside they found a bed,chair, table,two grand pianos, (one allegedly on top of the other ? <erm> :D ) towers of old newspapers,stacks of umbrellas and 144 identical white shirt collars
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With an introduction like that from Alistair McGowan I was eager to learn more about the man..

Alistair McGowan travels to Paris on the trail of his musical hero, the visionary Erik Satie - now most well-known as the composer of the Gymnopedies. Satie was famously eccentric - he replaced traditional musical directions like 'ralentando' and 'fortissimo' with instructions to the musician such as, 'While watching oneself approach' and 'like a nightingale with a toothache' and in order to save time deciding what to wear every day, he bought seven, identical, yellow, corduroy suits - one for every day of the week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036thyn

There is a play on tomorrow afternoon on 4 by Alistair McGowan about Satie..I'l be listening to that !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036twsz
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Very Captain Beefheart <ok> . He would tell the band he wanted them to play 'fast and bulbous' and when they asked what that meant he said ' a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, get it?'
Edited by rumbaba, Jul 15 2013, 01:21 PM.
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becky sharp
Jul 14 2013, 06:01 PM
After his death in 1925 some of Erik Satie's friends went to the flat that he had lived in for 27 years....no one else had ever been allowed in it during his life. Inside they found a bed,chair, table,two grand pianos, (one allegedly on top of the other ? <erm> :D ) towers of old newspapers,stacks of umbrellas and 144 identical white shirt collars
.
With an introduction like that from Alistair McGowan I was eager to learn more about the man..

Alistair McGowan travels to Paris on the trail of his musical hero, the visionary Erik Satie - now most well-known as the composer of the Gymnopedies. Satie was famously eccentric - he replaced traditional musical directions like 'ralentando' and 'fortissimo' with instructions to the musician such as, 'While watching oneself approach' and 'like a nightingale with a toothache' and in order to save time deciding what to wear every day, he bought seven, identical, yellow, corduroy suits - one for every day of the week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036thyn

There is a play on tomorrow afternoon on 4 by Alistair McGowan about Satie..I'l be listening to that !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036twsz
Me too! ...or so I thought...legs up on sofa with a cuppa and a (dark) Tunnocks tea cake, and lo! 15 mins or thereabouts, into the play I appear to have dropped off which is why I'm wide awake at 2am!!!! Will catch up on i-player later....
Edited by Mobson, Jul 16 2013, 01:13 AM.
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What a fascinating and rather unusual character Mr Satie was .... :)

Alistair McGowan did a good job both with the play and this programme about him <ok>
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becky sharp
Jul 17 2013, 11:51 AM
What a fascinating and rather unusual character Mr Satie was .... :)

I very much like his chicken with peanut sauce <laugh>
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becky sharp
Jul 14 2013, 06:01 PM
he bought seven, identical, yellow, corduroy suits - one for every day of the week.

It gives a slight twist to the old joke 'I've got a suit for everyday of the week, this is it'

It sounds simillar to the sort of behaviour that Wittgenstein exhibited, eating the same thing everyday and so on.
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Jul 17 2013, 12:46 PM
becky sharp
Jul 17 2013, 11:51 AM
What a fascinating and rather unusual character Mr Satie was .... :)

I very much like his chicken with peanut sauce <laugh>
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